Satiate Your Sweet Tooth With Delicious Dry Fruit Halwa

New Delhi: Dry Fruit Halwa is made with cornflour as a base. Easy to make dry fruit nuts halwa can be made in just 30 mins. Let’s take a look.

Ingredients

Dates paste:

• 1 cup Dates
• 1 cup hot water

Nuts:

• 1 teaspoon ghee
• 1/4 cup cashew
• 1/4 cup pistachio
• 1/4 cup walnut
• 1/4 cup almonds
• Corn flour slurry:
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 1/2 cup water

Halwa:

• Ghee 1/4 cup
• 1 tablespoon + 1/2 tablespoon raisins
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
• 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar

Instructions

1. Firstly, place parchment paper on 8*8 square pan and add little ghee
2. Soak dates in hot water for at least 15 minutes till the data turned soft
3. Add teaspoon of ghee and roast all the mixed nuts for 3 minutes or until the nuts turns aromatic and well roasted
4. Transfer to a plate and let them cool
5. In a mixing bowl add cornflour, and water, mix well and prepare a lump-free slurry
6. After the nuts are cool, pulse them and keep them aside
7. Grind the dates along with water into a fine paste
8. In a heavy-bottomed pan add ghee when ghee turns hot, add raisins and roast, save half of the raisins for later
9. Add the ground dates and saute for 3 minutes
10. Furthermore, add sugar and mix well, cook for 4 minutes
11. Add the mixed nuts, give a quick mix
12. Furthermore, add slurry and mix well
13. Add cardamom powder,brown sugar, mix well
14. Cook the mixture in low- medium flame for around 15 minutes until the mixtures come together as a mass leaving the pan
15. Finally, add the remaining roasted raisins and continue cooking
16. Cook till the mixture turns nonsticky and the ghee starts separating out
17. Transfer the halwa to the greased tray and let it sit for at least 30 minutes
18. Cut them into the desired size and serve dry fruits burfi